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In the six months after a diagnosis of cancer, suicide risk increases significantly, up to 20% relative to the general population, according to a paper recently published on JAMA Psychiatry. To evaluate the impact of [more]

An undesired effect of preventive screening for cancer is often overlooked: it’s not only the tendency to diagnose more and more cancers that would be likely to grow slowly – and to increase overdiagnosis – but [more]

Cancer, genetics, “bad luck” and prevention through lifestyle: two years after their first study that tried to quantify the random mutations that accumulate during stem cell divisions in healthy cells and drive cancer in different [more]

The risk of developing breast cancer varies widely from woman to woman in ways we are increasingly able to define. Marc Beishon asks: Is it time to move to population screening for risk, and tailor mammography schedules – [more]

“In the history of cancer research, there has always been tension between those who want to treat cancer and those who think we should prevent it,” writes the pioneering medical oncologist and former head of the [more]

When chemotherapy drugs leak from the veins it can cause serious injury to the patient, greatly heighten their fears of undergoing future treatment cycles, and undermine their trust in their medical team. Knowing how to [more]

If Tomasetti and Vogelstein had not used the words bad luck in their paper on how variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions, the media might [more]